House Pass Health Care Reform Bill, 220-215: PHOTO
The final vote the Health Care bill 3962 is shown as members of the house attend the vote on last night. (Photo from AP TV) A House Republican joined 219 Democrats to vote for the landmark Health Care reform bill last night in the House of Representatives, enabling the bill to pass 220 votes to 215 . Rep. John Dingell (D-Michigan), who has "> introduced national Health Insurance in every Congress since taking office 1955, said, "It provides coverage for 96 percent of Americans. It offers...

House Approves Democratic Health Insurance Reform Bill
Debate on the House floor had already begun when President Barack Obama entered a closed-door meeting of the Democratic House members across the street from the Capitol to make a final personal appeal to them to pass what has been his top domestic agenda item. The session was private, but Obama later said that he told Congress "that opportunities like this come around maybe once in a generation ... This is their moment, this is our moment, to live up to the trust that the American people have...

Government-Run -Public Option' in Pelosi Health Bill Threatens to Kill Hospitals, Says Democrat Who Voted Against the Bill: PHOTO
Rep. Rick Boucher (D.-Va.), who voted against the Pelosi Health Care bill that was approved by the House of Representatives yesterday, said he fears that the government-run "Public Option" Health Insurance plan the bill would create could kill the Hospitals in his congressional district.

House Health Bill Has Nowhere to Go in Senate
Government Health Insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to some Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate. Washington -- The glow from a Health Care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate. Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late Saturday vote, Obama urged senators to be like runners on a relay team and "take the...

Healthcare reform bill wouldn't end higher premiums based on age: PHOTO
Reporting from Washington - Under the healthcare proposals now before Congress, Insurance companies would no longer be able to charge higher prices to policyholders who had Diabetes or cancer, became pregnant or were severely overweight. But the far-reaching clampdown on insurers leaves one highly controversial element untouched: the issue of charging higher premiums to older policyholders than to younger, presumably healthier consumers who are less likely to file costly claims. Under the...

American House Passed Health Care Reform Bill
American House of Representatives passed the Health Care reform (220-215) bill at last on Saturday night. It is a sure outcome of President Obama's personal request and appeal to the House members for the favor to pass the bill. This bill deals with the American Affordable Health Choices acts and called HR 3962. The most important part of this bill is the reformation of American Health Insurance acts and laws. It will include expanded coverage for uninsured Americans, family and business...

Obama's Healthcare Reform: No Time To Rest
This evening, at 11:15 p.m., the House of Representatives voted to pass their Health Insurance reform bill. Despite countless attempts over nearly a century, no chamber of Congress has ever before passed comprehensive Health reform. This is history. But you and millions of your fellow Organizing for America supporters didn't just witness history tonight -- you helped make it. Each "yes" vote was a brave stand, backed up by countless hours of knocking on doors, outreach in town halls and town...

Obama Praises "Courageous" House Vote
ABC News' Rachel Martin reports: He's not taking a victory lap yet but today the President praised what he called an “historic” vote by the House of Representatives last night. “For years we've been told that this couldn't be done. After all, neither chamber of Congress has been able to pass a comprehensive Health Insurance reform bill for generations,” the President said in remarks today in the Rose Garden, “But last night the House proved differently.”

House Passes Health Care Bill
The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress. Nov. 7: Speaker Nancy Pelosi is joined by Majority Whip James Clyburn, and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif. during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol after the passage in the house of the Health Care reform bill. (AP) In a victory for President Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark Health Care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to...

10 ways the House bill would change insurance
These are some of the changes in the way Health Insurance would work in the United States under the House bill: 1. Creates a government-run plan, or "Public Option," to offer Insurance coverage. Would compete with private sector. 2. Sets up Health Insurance "exchanges," or marketplaces, where consumers can easily compare coverage and rates. 3. Requires nearly everyone to obtain Health Insurance coverage starting in 2013. 4. Requires Health plans to let people remain on their parents’...

House passes landmark reform of health care
Washington -- In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark Health Care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the Insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous. The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress. A triumphant Speaker Nancy Pelosi likened the legislation to the...

US House approves health care reform bill
Washington, Nov 8: The House of Representatives approved a Health Care reform bill on Saturday night, Nov 7, that may lead millions of Americans gaining Health Insurance. House members voted 220-215 for a $1.1 trillion, 10-year plan to extend Health coverage to 36 million Americans. The bill stipulates that all Americans have to obtain Health Insurance and creates a government-backed Insurance plan, popularly known as a 'Public Option'. Republicans have been united in their opposition to the...

Consistency Revisited I: PHOTO
I've noticed a few right-of-center blogs complaining of double standards on the left, in the denunciations of extremist rhetoric and imagery of the Tea Party marches. Ed Driscoll has a good point . The extremes of the anti-war left before Iraq were every bit as inflammatory and loopy as the Tea Partiers today. Now, they were opposing a war that turned out to be a catastrophe for all involved, while the Tea Partiers are just opposing the working poor having a chance to buy Health Insurance. But...

Health reformers prepare for Senate hurdle
The first thing Barack Obama did late on Saturday night following the passage of the healthcare bill in the House of Representatives was to phone the heads of three industry lobby groups to thank them for their support. Not included on the list was the largest Insurance lobby group, American Health Insurance Plans, which doggedly continues to oppose Democratic reform efforts. Amid all the late night celebrations after the razor-thin 220-215 vote for the bill, Karen Ignagni, head of AHIP, warned...

Health care overhaul faces stone wall in Senate
The glow from a Health Care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate. Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late Saturday vote, Obama urged senators to be like runners on a relay team and "take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people." The problem is that the Senate won't run with it. The government Health Insurance...

Compromises get U.S. health bill through
U .S. Republicans are counting on Democratic defectors in the Senate to upend President Barack Obama's goal of extending Health-Insurance coverage to all Americans, now that the House of Representatives has narrowly passed its own reform bill. Though Mr. Obama's objective of enacting Health reform is now nearer reality, major hurdles remain. Republicans vowed Sunday that no final bill will reach the President's desk, with South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham calling the House legislation...

Health care overhaul faces stone wall in Senate
The glow from a Health Care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate. Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late Saturday vote, Obama urged senators to be like runners on a relay team and "take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people." The problem is that the Senate won't run with it. The government Health Insurance...

House Dems: Don't tax 'Cadillac' plans
More than half of the Democrats in the House have signed on to a letter denouncing a key element of the Senate Finance Committee’s Health Care legislation as Labor unions draw a line in the sand on paying for reform. The Democrats are attacking a plan to finance expanded Health Care by taxing expensive Health Insurance plans. The plan, sometimes cast as a tax on “Cadillac” plans, would in fact include the Health Care plans of many public employees and union members and has...

House passes health insurance reform bill on close vote, 220-215
By DAVE HELLING and DAVID GOLDSTEIN The Kansas City Star A pounded gavel, the votes, then four words: “The bill is passed.” With that, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced narrow passage Saturday of historic legislation that would fundamentally change American Health Care for decades. Democrats erupted in weary applause and cheers after a day-long debate. Republicans, equally tired, promised to continue opposing the $1.1 trillion plan.

House passes health care bill on close vote
In a victory for President Obama, the U.S. House has narrowly passed landmark Health Care legislation to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the Health Insurance industry. The vote was 220-215. Read the full story here on House passing the Health Care reform bill .

House Passes Historic U.S. Health-Care Bill: PHOTO
WASHINGTON -- The House narrowly passed its sweeping Health bill late Saturday, marking the biggest victory yet for Democrats in their drive to create near-universal Health Insurance. The bill passed by a 220-215 margin and garnered the unexpected backing of one Republican, Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao of Louisiana. Thirty-nine Democrats voted against the measure. View Full Image Associated Press Rep. George Miller walks to the House of Representatives floor with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the U.S....

What the House Health Reform Bill Means for You
Saturday night, the House of Representatives passed a major Health Care reform bill; the first to clear that hurdle since Medicare was created over 40 years

In historic vote, House approves health care bill
WASHINGTON — For the first time ever, the House late Saturday passed comprehensive legislation aimed at remaking the American Health Care system to provide coverage for all. After a daylong debate, the bill passed, 220-215, prompting raucous cheers and hugs among Democrats, who have pushed such measures without success for decades. Some 219 Democrats and one Republican, Joseph Cao of Louisiana, voted for the bill, with 39 Democrats joining 176 Republicans in opposition. A Republican...

Abortion Politics
Ann Friedman quotes Pilgrim Soul on the passage last night of Bart Stupak's appalling amendment to prevent anyone receiving a federal subsidy from buying a Health Insurance plan that covers Abortions: Charmingly I expect that in the next few days all your liberal dude friends will be trying to explain to you that this is really no big deal, look, they had to get the Republicans/"Democrats" onboard SOMEHOW, this is just a battle but we won the war, etc etc. God knows we liberal dudes...

Quote For The Day I: PHOTO
“I read the versions of the House [health reform] bill. I listened to the countless stories of Orleans and Jefferson Parish citizens whose Health Care costs are exploding